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Bartholomew’s Log, Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, Former Home of Lt. Col. Scott “X-20″ Bartholomew.

In the summer of 1954, a secret research sub-project sponsored by MKUpsilon was tasked to study the psychological pitfalls (if any) of sealing a solitary, mentally unsound astronaut inside a giant sequoia for several years.

Lt. Col. Scott “X20″ Bartholomew’s enormous hollowed-out redwood "home” was chosen for its ability to best replicate the experience of living inside a haunted log floating in space - complete down to a crude wooden shack constructed at one end of the log to serve as an ersatz airlock and “ghost port.”

It took courthouse administrators less than two days to remove Banksy’s latest stencil mural of a judge attacking a protester, which appeared in central London early this week. But what remains of the artwork is a shadowy stain, eerily reminiscent of a hooded Grim Reaper wielding a scythe, that has captured widespread attention in its own right. The saga began on Monday morning, September 8, when…